Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEYThere’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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